Whaaaaaaaaat? Salyavin, I thought that was the definition of evolution, things getting better! But I guess one must take a quite humungous view of the whole situation. Meaning that even if earth is becoming overpopulated with dummies, somewhere in the universe a planet is being underpopulated by geniuses. And all that adds up to evolution. Is that a valid way to consider your statement: There is no reason why evolution should keep making things better.
________________________________ From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodle...@mail.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:24 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The data is in: Atheists are more intelligent than believers --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > salyavin, I was glancing at title of your thread and then Dick May's thread > and wondered...anyway, yes, average IQ is dropping over time, dropped 3 > points since 1950, at least according to one researcher. Hope the table is > accessible. Makes me question natural selection. > > > http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/BRBAKER/ It's no surprise to me, I've seen Idiocracy. The less we have to do, the less that intelligence will be important enough to select for. Remember, things only get selected if they confer an advantage and all most people have to do is stumble to work and afterwards, flop in front of the TV eating cheeseburgers (making the occasional post to FFL along the way). As the blurb under the graph says, we tend to breed with people of similar intellect, so this trend will get cemented as a majority position. I think this has already happened in the UK (seriously) but I think we will end up like the Eloi and the Morlocks in The Time Machine, two human species but very different in the way they look and act. There is no reason why evolution should keep making things better. ______________________________ > From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodlewix@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 6:40 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The data is in: Atheists are more intelligent > than believers > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" <cardemaister@> wrote: > > > > > > What is that country with the highest national IQ (~ 107) with > > > fairly few (about 12%) atheists? South-Korea?? > > > > One two-second Google search away: > > > > http://www.statisticbrain.com/countries-with-the-highest-lowest-average- > > Reply to sender  Reply to group  Start a New Topic Messages in this > > topic (6) > Recent Activity:     * New Members 1  > Visit Your Group > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use • Send > us Feedback > . > >  >